A practical guide to starting a career at an international development organisation.
Despite the challenges, the opportunity to create tangible change is what draws many to the NGO sector.
Two observations are pertinent here. Primary education up to class VIII as a compulsory and universal stage of education is a 50-year-old idea broached first in 1974 Qudrat-e-Khuda Commission report and reiterated in Education Policy 2010.
Perhaps the most important contribution of the book lies in providing intimate insights into how NGOs work in Bangladesh.
Finding himself at the epicentre of the disaster, Abed realised that a large number of deaths (an estimated 500,000) in the “world’s deadliest known tropical cyclone” were not necessarily caused by the natural disaster.
The book doesn’t only become a memoir of the writer’s life as a development worker, but also a tribute to the late Sir Abed and his magnanimity as a human being and a visionary.
Feroz, 13, leaves Habib from time to time in his makeshift wheelchair outside the High Court Mazar gate and disappears into the distance. The young boy was hired seven days ago to wheel around Habib -- who earns his living by begging.
Rabeya boarded a launch for the first time when she was eight. As she arrived in Dhaka from Barishal, her grandmother abandoned her. Thus began Rabeya's life as a victim of sex exploitation.
Microsoft introduces charitable pricing for the non-profit organisations (NGOs) in Bangladesh in line with its “Technology for social impact” initiative in a bid to accelerate their transformation.
Two out of every three Taka of health care costs in Bangladesh is borne by the people while the rest by the government, NGOs and others.
Gunmen have killed 11 people, including three teenagers and a Colombian national, in Venezuela, officials say.
It is well known that since the 1980s, Bangladesh has made astonishing progress on a wide variety of development indicators such as reducing the prevalence of extreme hunger and poverty...
The government moves to formulate the foreign donations regulation act to muzzle NGOs so that they cannot speak against its misrule, BNP alleges.
Dhaka Ahsania Mission (DAM) is awarded with the 2015 Arab Gulf Programme for Development (AGFUND) Prize for implementing various projects successfully which helped to create employment opportunities for youths.
Child abuse is no new story in our country. Especially after seeing various child killing incidents just this year, it has been proved to us
We applaud the initiative of Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC), Sajida Foundation, Concern Worldwide and Water Aid of opening a three...
We are amazed at the report of “NGO officials” at a remote village in Sadurapul upazila in Kishoreganj embezzling about Tk 37 lakh from poor rural women in the name of capacity-building and income-generation.
Two Nepalese maids have accused a Saudi diplomat of rape and torture while they were working in his home outside the Indian capital.
American actor Matt Dillon put a rare star-powered spotlight on Myanmar's long-persecuted Rohingya Muslims, visiting a camp for tens of thousands displaced by violence.
